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with the withdrawal of over thirty thousand troops from afghanistan the one of the main pledges in iraq obama's state of the union address examines the foreign policy areas that he wasn't too keen to talk about. saddam's broken israeli media a shroud of secrecy over the death of an alleged secret agent in custody despite the government trying very hard to keep it quiet. and with europeans paying some of the highest taxes in the world the wealthy to protect that money by looking for places that won't take such a hefty slice. worldwide news around the clock this is on the with me research and live in moscow welcome to
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the program barack obama used his first state of the union address on his second to try and appease lawmakers and taxpayers are making fresh promises to boost the economy and work hard on slashing the debt on the issue of foreign policy though the us president also announced that thirty four thousand troops will leave afghanistan by next february and he said now we now are joins me live here in the studio to bring us some more about this so what's most important policy foreign policy is a fairly mixed bag of issues are being said that by a by the american president of course and that big news on afghanistan top the address president obama himself saying that after over a decade troops are coming home by the end of twenty four teen obama pointing out that there are two missions at hand now preparing afghan forces to take over so that the country does not slip into chaos again those were his words the key words here again as if it's not as if it's now a stable place just today reports coming in. that ten civilians were killed in
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a nato strike targeting taliban insurgents now while obama spent most of his speech talking about the economy and taxes he failed to mention that so far the u.s. has invested over one hundred billion dollars in reconstruction of afghanistan and that this year it's expected another thirty billion could be spent in aid as well this as the afghan state is rated one of the most corrupt in the world despite red flags from watchdogs monitoring the aid directly given to the government there's no way of ensuring where all this money is going if it's going to the right place whose hands that cash is falling into watchdog also saying it's too dangerous in many places across afghanistan to safely observe what's happening before more and. says some have become very rich including western officials well most afghans have been left with nothing many countries thrive on this war they make money there in
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goes their un people others who are lined up and making fat salaries and while the life of afghan ordinary afghans have not changed we of course we have had some things like media. communication and this and that but. in relation to what was available and what could have been done it's a drop in the bucket. obama also spoke of defending democracy across the globe most notably the arab spring which has previously been held a success by his administration especially libya egypt and tunisia all contraries that are now still drowning in chaos and violence two years on well obama has changed his tune a bit now saying well it's going to be a messy transition also his tone on syria a bit distant considering a year ago the u.s. was insisting president go a lot of speculation about possible intervention while obama now saying they will
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continue to put pressure on the syrian leader another pledge from obama to continue to push for legal and durable policy on counterterrorism now no mention here of guantanamo drones or wiretapping but obama did mention internet freedoms well sort of he flaunted signing an executive order on cyber defense but the order is really seen as a response to congress's refusal to pass the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act system that was last year and in light of serious privacy concerns it didn't go through in other words a loophole has been found for cispa to really be put in action so i suppose actually signed on the day of the state of the union address well there's about i believe i don't want to check it for next hour but i believe that day because he said i just signed his yeah it's always an executive order that was very very easy to take attention away from something if you can do it on the around the same time
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as the state of the union because no one's going to think about anything else except the big speech so it could be a crafty move could be indeed also using these in a way thank you. well while barack obama is charting the food food and future course of his country being taken close same with his plans for stricter gun control. protesters in the state of new york demonstrate against the. following the sandy hook school massacre last. this is. a veil of silence over the death of a top secret prisoner has been lifted by the israeli media which had been gagged by a court order it surfaced following a reported australian press about
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a man linked to the israeli secret service who hanged himself in prison after months of being held in secret. or investigates. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu summoned the editors of all the major israeli news outlets to an emergency meeting and in that meeting he asked them not to publish the story saying and i'm quoting that it would be embarrassing to a certain government agency not at first the editors did listen and all references to the original australian report were removed from israeli news websites but later it was brought back not only to the web sites but also to all the radio and t.v. stations here and certainly sincerely also this morning it has been the headline news everyone though is referencing it as a report from australia not what we understand is that israeli parliament terence did oss the justice minister to confirm whether or not this report was true they also demanded to know if they were other prisoners who were being held in secret in israeli jails the justice minister's comments were and i'm quoting that there is no
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doubt that if this information is accurate this is something that needs to be checked state since it gave news outlets in israel the green light to report on this parliamentary debate but nothing else but of course we're witnessing now that the reporting has gone much further than just this debate such a gag order it is important to say it is highly unusual in israel ways statement a tree since as many and all of the local media to quote fallen sisters on controversial topics such as the alleged israeli strike in syria last month what we also understand is that various human rights groups such as human rights watch as well as the israeli civil rights movement have been aware of this particular incident for quite some time now the australian media is reporting that this man came to live in israel when he was a youngster. and he was were critical on the stand by the side of the israeli secret service something went wrong and we've been given no reason for him being
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imprisoned but there is speculation that it would have had to be connected somehow with espionage and sensitive state secrets the former foreign minister avigdor lieberman has said that left wing parliamentarians have damaged israeli security by bringing this issue to the fore in the first place. alters our policy reporting right there now tax hikes are still the default plan for you nations trying to get out of debt and europe's rich aren't exactly happy about handing over their cash by the sack full. of a found out low tax nations are suddenly looking very tempting he's a leading man of stage and screen however european heads of state will be hoping that by a deal doesn't become the leader of a tax exodus but the super rich front lawns decision to push through a seventy five percent top rate of tax on those earning over one million euros saw the excess of sticks and head to russia europe some of the highest rates of
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taxation in the world with many giving the lion's share of the things to the state of vermont feel. it can be a balancing act of course you want to run a successful business but if you make over a certain amount you find yourself paying out huge quantities of tax over fifty percent don't. there are warnings for europe that when compared to low tax countries like russia they could lose their competitive edge if they're a country with low taxes and with high taxes capital flow well to country with low taxes in the same is true for people with talent there's always going to be people that think the taxes are too high but a growing number actually starting to think that it's becoming detrimental to the development of business pretty hard to owns a haulage company in munich currently he employs around ninety people transporting everything from the small to the big and bulky all over mainland europe he say's
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that lowering the current rate of tax would not just make big changes to his business but also to the lives of his staff that's where not only can his with him . he would be super first i could pay higher salaries this is a very important issue right now due to the rise in the cost of living also i can invest more into the company and grow the business even employ more people everyone benefits something that is impossible under the current tax system. and those in power argue that the problem in european countries right now is that taxpayers want to have the best of both worlds big management of the phenomenon we face regarding taxes is that everyone wants to pay as little as possible however no one is willing to give up the services that those taxes go to pay for them with few signs of any major tax cuts on the horizon in year businesses like this one going to have to
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continue to struggle to bring home the bacon but it comes to saving fifty development these are all other r.t. . and altie is coming to life from moscow and faith in teaching religious schools spread across. decades of being banned under the previous regime coming on the program and leaving many alarmed about the possible spread of radicalism we investigate whether. that report just ahead for you. the un security council to tighten sanctions on north korea defies international regulation and explodes a new. remote mountain range all those details after the break. we. choose the
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this is a religious education is making a serious come back until two years after the regime which banned the teaching of islam was toppled and the current government has no control of a private muslim schools are springing up all over the country and the worry is spreading the issue of extremism. visited one school where the koran is the main subject. tunisia's learned some tough lessons in the wake of its revolt but now the report card for what's going on in its schools is facing examination in the school in one of the poorest districts of the tunisian capital children come to learn about the qur'an and the way of life of true muslims religious education was banned under the old regime but it's making a comeback in a big way the rise of islamist them has led to an increase in the number of religious schools are springing up across the country these schools are private
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operating outside of the control of state officials who have no say over what's being taught in these schools and some worry that this may lead to a rise in the number of young extremists even many religious experts agree filling young minds with religious doctrines may not be the best way to bring up children. what do i read on one of the papers sent by a three year old girl to her mother with a message my beloved mom teach me about the afterlife the same way you teach about this life is this a way to teach three year old children we can see it clearly attempts to brainwash these children dr from loony carried out an extensive research of religious schools and to nice to find out whether critics were right to say that they were damaging to the country's post revolutionary development she found most schools were primarily focused on teaching strict islamic values without worrying about the
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effect these methods may have on youngsters. i have noticed that all female teachers at these schools where any cub while teaching you can't see her face this is in contradiction with what's known in psychology as communication how can she communicate with the kids if her face is covered in motions and movements are vital to kids and social interaction such things do not contradict our values and morals . but parents who send their children to study at these schools believe they are on the right track. educating their children with muslim values is the way to ensure that they will lead a proper life from childhood study in the koran improves memory increases thinking abilities and says the right course for the rest of their lives. at the moment not even the ministry of education is able to say exactly how many religious schools there are in tunisia after the revolution they sprung up over the country many operating without license from the state the government has acknowledged the
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problem but has its hands full trying to keep the climate together. is on the backburner this absence of control that especially worries tunisians on top of the concerns about extremist salafist groups gaining ground. these groups don't believe in democracy republic and freedom they consider them to be against their religion they want to impose their way of life onto museums by force as if they know better than other people. after the arab spring revolt tunisians were eager to embrace what they hoped would be a new way of life but with radical islam permeating more and more spheres of everyday life these children's future i mean not be exactly what many parents had hoped for in their quest for freedom and democracy in tunisia. r.t. . lots of great stories in a video. at the moment.
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shortly here on the program. north korea. the international community and held it. yet. china. was among those to join the worldwide chorus of. recent leadership. could be applied or already being applied so it's really fall into a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with their. korea and it's and i imagine that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically
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the entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time throw that throw into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new army government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question of china specifically i think it does have the most leverage over north korea at this point and certainly a lot of aid and support comes from china so i think they have a lot of pressure that they can put on north korea at this point. are to starting with thailand let's get into the on sea world update now it's exactly where nineteen insurgents were killed after they launched a pre-dawn assault on a military base in the country's south over one hundred heavily armed fighters stormed the marine camp on the malaysian border the troops did repel the attack suffering no injuries themselves the rate is the heaviest militants attacked for
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several years in the rest of cell. where police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of protesters in the country's capital days before the two year anniversary of the uprising a people marched in the streets carrying flags and chanting anti-government slogans accusing the ruling regime of corruption and human rights violations have been staging demonstrations since early two thousand and eleven all the time demanding political reform and i won't be all for every move of the ruling. blaming them for the crackdown on protests. and they hand over the syrian embassy in the capital doha to the opposition syrian national coalition opposition leader hockey he claims he was recently appointed as ambassador. says it is just formal procedure to acknowledge his new post the national coalition was formed in doha eighteen months ago and the recognized by other gulf states as
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syria's the representative. of nearly four million british adults have never had any form of paid work in their lives that's more than the population of wales and a recent court ruling some of the schemes to get people into work as the explanation notes once he's correspondent sara. university graduate kate riley and forty year old jamison wilson succeeded in their claims that their unpaid work scheme that they were made to take part in was indeed a little for them a small but significant victory now the law is that that ruling say it would mean that thousands of people who have their benefits stripped from the under similar circumstances in this government work program could reclaim that money that could leave the door open to millions of pounds compensation that would be footed by
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the taxpayer of course that's causing a lot of concern god he's done its own investigation into the work program in response to what's the government has said that it was read to suggest that there were any problems with the work program and that it wasn't helping people get back into work but look this is all being quite embarrassing for the government today now speak to us more about this i'm joined by amery o'reilly for the boycott workfare program thank you very much for joining us a small victory do you think that far enough because on the surface of it it seems like a big deal and a win the obviously the people involved in that but is this going to be as hard hitting and as far reaching well today's ruling is really significant for us it shows that workfare forced on paid work in the u.k. isn't just wrong it's also been unlawful but you're right it doesn't go far enough to still a lot to be done one of this my significant schemes mandatory activity is still intact and really disturbingly the government threatening to bring emergency
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regulations through to bring workfare straight back in the future controversial loads of criticism about these government work schemes but they are schemes that are in place in the governor's quite right getting people back into jobs are they not unemployment in the u.k. the moment is a huge huge issue but the government nice that these schemes don't work instead of helping create jobs what they're doing is replacing paid work effect. replacing jobs that would exist if the schemes were and place not only that the government's using these schemes to massage the unemployment figures because when people are forced to work without pay on the schemes they can't count them as having a job a very strange definition of having a job where not a single person is receiving a wage for them before one graduate who is on the program certainly a small but significant victory and if the if that k. fed today it certainly means that the government now has to go back to the drawing board when it comes to their work schemes correspondence or further porting now as barack obama prepares to enact tougher gun control measures many in the country
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think that he's taking americans down the wrong path the state of new york was the first to follow the president bypassing restrictions like flagging up customers who buy large amounts of ammunition and health checks for potential gun owners aunties and i see chuck and i reports from the state's capital albany on how people there attain it. the big apple business as usual. a few hours by train the empire state capital. as the united states remains divided when it comes to what to do with guns in this country after a recent series of shootings hundreds of anti-gun control protesters gathered outside the state capitol building in albany hear the toughest state law on firearms in the u.s. after the sandy hook elementary school shooting the safe fact was passed a month ago. and those whose guns are at stake are far from happy july look like a terrorist because it will look like
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a fanatic among other provisions the new state law bans weapon sales over the web restricts ammo magazines to seven bullets include stricter background checks and regular certification cuomo signed that law in a mill and i without these three days were to be allowing the people to read it. these protesters say their second amendment right to bear arms under the us constitution is being stepped on by the legislators they need to smarten up and listen to get the garbage out in your ears and listen to what the people are saying gun owners believe politicians are looking for criminals in the wrong places i've been a gun owner for thirty years and now some of the guns i have in my locker are now illegal well i've never had a. parking ticket in my life there's nothing wrong with good law abiding citizens had firearms it's just an assessment because this legislation is not going to stop
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hardened criminals obsessed with firearms it's not going to stop drug dealers it's not murderers it's not going to stop the latest so what is the answer as the u.s. struggles to find common ground on where the gun debate should take the country next i think the fear punishment anyone does a crime with a gun here. no slap on the hand no parole board and that will stop what you see in the country well the position of these gun advocates is clear what remains to be seen is whether the us as a whole can ever come to a compromise and r.t.e. . are up next guests discussing personal privacy the hello kitty toy space news on the scene in the mainstream media breaking the set just to.
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